Response to Bishop Oscar Cantu, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace

Here is the head of the US Catholic Bishops Committee on International Justice warning that a possible US embassy move to Jerusalem would produce an undivided Israel preventing ending a 50 year allegedly cruel occupation for Palestinians and Israelis alike. Forgive me Bishop Cantu, but what right does the church have to suggest that the Jewish nation of Israel surrender its sovereignty to its land? The Bishops are entitled to their views, as is the holy father, Pope Francis.

Is this the Vatican perennial line that it wants the internationalization of Jerusalem?

We had enough of that under Pope Pius the XII in the UN deliberations to partition the holy land into a Jewish and Arab State, only to have Israel fight with five invading Arab Armies in th War of Independence in 1948 1949. That ended in an Armistice line dividing Jerusalem between the illegally occupied eastern half by Jordan and western half by Israel until its liberation and unification 50 years ago this June in 1967.

If the United States does finally elect to move the Embassy to Jerusalem, perhaps the Vatican and the other 159 countries with embassies in Tel Aviv could do the same.

You must admit Bishop that unlike the Jordanian illegal occupation, that under Israeli administration all religious institutions in Jerusalem have been protected and freedom of worship maintained by the Jewish nation of Israel.

But the Vatican hs chosen for whatever reason to recognize the State of Palestine, dspite the fact it does’t meet the acepted international standards for a functioning democratic state. But then the Vatican signed Lateran acts with Hitler and Mussolini as I recall.

The U.S. bishops are asking the new Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, to not fulfil President Donald Trump’s pledge to move the country’s embassy from Tel Aviv
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